This is a book that any women can relate too. Annabeth is one of many women that our out in the world that gives of herself without asking for anything in return. You will laugh and cry from start to end. Nancy Frederick was able to capture my attention through out the entire book. You will not want to put down the book until you finish reading it. ++++++++++++++++++++

This book is for all the women out there who continually give of themselves and neglect to take in return. I think we can all relate to Annabeth in some way or another. Her strength resulted from a man who did not appreciate her and through it all she discovers that she is a beautiful loving woman. We should all take a lesson from this amazing character.

Annabeth's struggle to create a new life for herself while shedding her past baggage was truly a triumph over what should have been a tragedy. This book will have you laughing through your tears as Annabeth deals with a new found freedom and discovers that she is as worthy of attention and love as all the many people she shouldered and cared for her entire life. The writing was superb. The glistening prose highlighted every nuance of emotion, every level of character and made a story already rich in plot evermore important because it showed that Annabeth isn't just a character, she is apart of everyone of us. This story was a fantastic read and is a book that will soon grace your list of yearly reads. Don't pass this book up. It's a definite recommend.

WOW! What a fun time I had reading this, and I'm neither a sports nut nor a lawyer (though I did manage to learn alot about both). I can only imagine that those who are sports crazed and/or legal beagles would be even more impressed with Frederick Day's amazing collection of anecdotes.

I bought Fred Day's book for my husband, the sports nut. He loved it! He encouraged me to read it and I hesitated, since I only half-heartedly pay attention to whatever game-de-jour he has on TV. Well, for once he was right! I don't know that much about sports, but I found this book fascinating. You'll love Day's well-written and compelling stories. It's a look at sports from another angle...one that even I could relate to. Who'd have thought a book by a lawyer about sports could be so interesting, amusing, and memorable! I would highly recommend this book--to sportsfans or not!

I found the author's writing to be clear and concise, easy to understand, no legalese. The author's subtle humor and well-researched documentation of both little-known and well-known sports facts, legal manipulations involved, and legal precedents make this compilation of legal cases such an easy, pleasurable read that even those who thought they knew all there was to know in the sports world will be amazed, surprised, and enlightened. A great book for anyone who loves sports trivia. Knowledge of law not a prerequisite. Think Christmas gift!

Coast Walk is the page turning novel of a con man and murderer and tells the intriguing tale of his diabolical schemes to rob and murder innocent women from coast to coast.
I must admit it took me some time to get past the gory first chapter, but once I read on I could see how it was necesary for the development of the character. Thankfully, he becomes more humane as the book progresses because he unwittedly falls in love with his next victim. Set in the idyllic town of La Jolla California it truly makes you want to make this your next vacation spot.

The story develops very smoothly and quickly and you might want to set aside some time to read it because you won't be able to put it down! Even thou the protagonist is a despicable madman his character is thouroughly explored and his sick warped mind exposed.I found his victim to be a little too naive and trusting but her fathers' overprotectiveness drives her into the wrong arms. While reading it I could easily invision this as a movie with say, Vivica Fox as the leading lady? I think the author would agree. Leading Man? How about Jim Caviezel (Angel Eyes)?
He plays that dark, sinister, mystery man role very well. This is a great thriller and I look forward to more from this well written author.

I loved the book Coast Walk! It was hard to put the book down once you started to read it! This book was not only romantic, but full of intrigue and suspense. A Fantastic Book!

I was truly impressed with the fact that the Author Frederick Regenold was so detailed with the scenery of La Jalla, the beach, the restaurants and especially his characters. It was as though you were there!! I pictured everything and it seemed so beautiful, warm, scenic/tranquil very hard to come back to reality!

Mr. Regenold used the vocabulary at its best! I can't wait for his next novel. (Hopefully a sequel to this one)! I want more to happen with these two characters. I can't say enough about the book without giving some of it away. This is a must read novel.

I was surprised however, that I was unable to find his book in the bookstores! I was only able to find it on the Internet. I'm an avid reader and often at the bookstores. I hope to find his novels in our bookstores soon!

The story, "Coast Walk" is, undoubtedly, the best book I have read in many years. Although the story takes place in La Jolla, California, where I live, it has nothing to do with my impression of this "undiscovered" author's work. He is, in short, a master at writing. What he has written is a masterpiece.The depth of his vocabulary never ends. He has a multifaceted way of describing the characters, the scenery and the room around you, so that you feel like you are in a movie theater watching an outstanding movie. His description of the places and scenes around La Jolla are very acurate. It made me feel like I just walked out my front door and experienced the main characters right here, in my town. He is colorful and continues to give you shocking surprises throughout the book. The author describes the sex scenes in a real life manner. Wow! He must have a lot of experience. He seems to know what goes on in a woman's mind as well as what a man thinks about. The energy of the composition stays all the way through the story and rises with a perfect peak at the end, which left me in tears. I don't cry in many stories, and this one really grabbed me. What a story! This author should not go to waste. I trust that he is writing another book, and his work should be in all the book stores. Everyone should experience this writer. He is another Ernest Hemingway, in the making.
I am surprised that I could find his book only on the Internet.

If somebody loves you authentically so much so that you become better person than before, you can't help loving him dearly. It happens. And it can happen even through a book! In this incredable book called "insight", you are invited to a wonderland of a higly diffentiated intelligence, only to find that it is no other than your real self. At first you wonder, you ask, you think hard, and you get it! For the first time you come to know what is understanding. You begin to doubt, you reflect, and finally you judge that you are a knower! Now you are changed. Now you know you are consciously operating in your experiencing, understanding, judging, and deciding. Now you know what knowledge is, what it means to you, and how it means to you. You become a living, knowing, acting subject. And you come to love Lonergan, since he introduced you to yourself. To "read" Insight may take a long time, years or decades. However when you finish it, you will begin to take another long trip to yourself, where no one had gone before...

This is the definitive text of Bernard Lonergan's most important work, Insight, with over 130 revisions, based on the meticulous labor of comparing three texts, line by line, word by word! All students of Lonergan's thought owe a great debt to Frs. Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran for having executed their task with such thoughtfulness, perfection and devotion. Corresponding pages to the second edition of Insight, which has been the standard one, are given in brackets. My previous review was based on the second edition.

Rev. Bernard Lonergan, S.J.(1904-1984), though still not commonly known, was, talent-wise, certainly one of the top thinkers of the 20th century. It takes time for his thoughts to be appreciated, developed and applied. There are already numerous web-sites and hundreds of books, articles and theses written on his ideas. He might be publicly acknowledged as one of the 100 most influential thinkers by the end of this century. For more than forty years, his works continue to nourish and challenge people, initially in seminary circles, and gradually in different universities. Boston College has been a key base for over 20 years in fostering studies of Lonergan's thought and stimulating dialogue with people in diverse fields. Insight remains one of the basic books that one needs to master if we want to reach up to Lonergan's mind, just as he reached up to the mind of Aquinas. One of the perennial issues underlying human differences is our assumptions about knowing and reality. What is it to know? Is it taking a look out there? Or do we presume that we cannot know reality? Lonergan proposed an arduous journey for all of us to become aware of what we are doing when experiencing, understanding, judging and choosing. The focus is on appropriating or gaining self-knowledge of our recurrent cognitional processes and structures in knowing. "¡Kit is essential that the notion of insight, of the accumulation of insights, of higher viewpoints, and of their heuristic significance and implications, not only should be grasped clearly and distinctly but also, in so far as possible, should be identified in one's own personal intellectual experience." (p.xx) "Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding." (p.xxviii) This is a difficult, painstaking and challenging task, not achieved just by reading from cover to cover (785 pages plus 30). Lonergan's examples from mathematics, physics, classical and statistical investigations might be a hurdle to those who don't have background in such disciplines. Insight is like the Zen master's finger pointing towards the moon. One must be careful not to get lost in the sweeping and erudite visions and constantly come back to appropriating one's own knowing processes. This is not a book for the faint-hearted. One easier introduction is Terry J. Tekippe's "What is Lonergan Up to in Insight? A Primer". Then one can go on to Flanagan's Quest for Self-Knowledge, and The Lonergan Reader, edited by the Morellis, and finally come to grapple with the full original and Lonergan's later works on Method in Theology and Macroeconomic Dynamics.

This volume of Socialist Workers Party leader James P. Cannon?s writings is dated to a tumultuous time. The Stalinized Communist International, and the German Communist Party, refused to wage an effective struggle against the rise of Hitler to power, causing a defeat felt by workers and farmers around the globe. This defeat was as unnecessary as it was massive. This caused not a whimper of protest within that movement. Communists who defended the traditions of the Communist International of Lenin?s time, led by Leon Trotsky, became convinced that the official Communist movement had now become an obstacle, not an opportunity, for world revolution. They moved to gather their forces into a new revolutionary movement. In doing so, they also searched for, and found, groups of revolutionary-minded workers from other backgrounds, who themselves had been deeply affected by the political and economic turmoil of the 1930s.

Amazon lists this book as out of print, but Pathfinder has reprinted this book in an attractive new edition with more pictures, better type, notes etc. Most revolutionists today fight in small groups awaiting for and seeking out mass struggles by the working class. This is the story of the Communist League of America, the small group of American supporters of Leon Trotsky who went from the peak of the depression with its inactivity and defeats f to the big struggles in 1934 including the Minneapolis Teamster Strikes led by the SWP.
This is the record of Cannon with the support to Trotsky fighting for a clear principled way to turn the movement to the potential of workers resistance, to struggles by Blacks around the Scottsboro frame-up among other things, and at the same time building internationalist principles.
This is also the story of how the CLA and the world movement led by Trotsky realized that the Stalinist capitulation to Hitler in 1933 meant the Comintern was dead, and a new revolutionary international was required.
Everything Cannon writes has a certain wit and wisdom about it, where the value goes beyond the political to the personal and beyond. Even though these were tough times, there is even a glint of humor to be discovered where you might least expect it

This collection of writings and speeches, steeped in the workers struggles of the 1930s and the leadership challenges of forging a communist workers party, really impressed me with how relevant and useful they are today. James P. Cannon was a young organizer for the IWW and early Socialist Party, a founding member and leader of the Communist Party in the United States in the 1920s, and central leader of the cadre who fought to maintain the Bolshevik's revolutionary course against the Stalinist degeneration of the Soviet Union and Communist International from the late 1920s on.

Here you will find week-by-week, sometimes day-by-day, news, analysis, and proposals for action. Cannon writes as a participant and leader of a workers party involved in organizing coal miners, textile strikes, the big 1933 New York hotel strike, the historic Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934. He takes up key international questions: the evolution of the Stalinist leadership in the Soviet Union, the rise of fascism in Germany, and the difficult, persistent efforts led by Leon Trotsky to rebuild a new revolutionary international movement. Many of his writings detail questions of party leadership, lessons of faction and tendency struggles, or answer key practical questions: "what to do next?"

I'd strongly suggest reading this along with Cannon's "History of American Trotskyism" that covers the same historic period, "Teamster Rebellion" by Farrell Dobbs, and current writings that pick up the struggle today, including "Their Trotsky and Ours" and "Capitalism's World Disorder" by Jack Barnes.

An example of time displacement, as in Footprints Of Thunder. Ciencin has once again written a fantastic book about Dinosaurs. I would also recommend reading Dinotopia: Lost City by. Scott Ciencin!!!

This book is about four kids who get sent back to the time of the dinosaurs by someone's science project. They get into a big, big mess. The book was funny, but I don't want to give away any of the jokes. The author ended the book just at the right time to make you want to read the next book.

This is a really good book. It is about four jr. high kids who get sent back in the Mesazoic ( the time of the dinosaurs ). It happens when Bertram ( one of the kids ) does a science project that he calls the M.I.N.D. Machine. The M.I.N.D. Machine goes wrong and the kids are sent to the Mesazoic. The kids are Bertram, a kid who gets teased a lot and turns into a Ankylosaurs, a tank-like, spiky dinosaur, Candayce, a popular girl who turns into a Leptoceratops, a fat, pudgy dinosaur ( Candayce does NOT like to be a Leptoceratops ), Mike, a star football player who turns into a T. Rex, well everyone knows what a T. Rex is like, and last Janine, a girl who nobody likes turns into a majestic Pterodactyl, the flying one. These kids have to face the challenges of being a dinosaur in this book. Read this book to find out what happens! I would recommend this book to anybody.

This is the kind of sci-fi book you'll be anxious to discuss with people once you've finished. Set in the near future and using the subject matter of black/white race relations, it demonstrates ways that those in power use and manipulate the concept of the "other". It's extremely thought-provoking: you can see echoes of the book's theme not only in contemporary race relations, but all over the political landscape and throughout history.

Frederick is trying to balance a lot of things in "Dominion": there are well over a dozen significant characters, a good bit of action, some speculative technology, and a powerful social theme all within the space of a short novella. For the most part he succeeds, although I would have liked to have seen more than two ethnic groups (black and white) in the story, and a few characters are introduced but don't actually DO very much, suggesting that they'll have larger roles in the next book in the trilogy.

This is a great book that bridges the world of sci-fi readers, and race theorists. Take an intricate story line, disect it into 16 chapters, and put those together in a non-linear but pseudomathematic fashion, and you have a book that is relentless in its pursuit. The author uses his imagination well to create a utopial society where blacks are the predominant culture, and caucasians are the subjugated race. (Stokely Carmichael would be proud). He then proceeds to present to the reader, race issues through this platform. Among them for example, the paradox of representation, the struggle for liberation and civil rights movement acceptance issues,which are now afforded a lucidity by means of the science fiction element in this book. This book was written very intelligently, and presents a very important skill to have in terms of understanding race theory.

Dominion is not just a story; it's a discussion piece for months after you have read it. The intricate plot lines, the diverse characterizations, and the vision of what society would be like if blacks were to take over the US through violence makes this book a treasure. I could not put it down. I read through it once, read it again, and I'm on my third time through right now. Each time I've read this book, I pick up on nuances in dialogue and how pieces of the puzzle were revealed almost subliminally. I recommend this book for those who like to discuss social issues as it pertains to the future of education, society, race relations, and politics. I can't wait to read the next book in the series

In this book, Frederick Busch once again shows an incredible mastery of the short story as a vehicle to convey the deepest and most intimate personal feelings, even through the ephemeral nature of a short story as opposed to a novel. Yet, Busch has a talent shown by only a few present day short story writers. His ability to convey human feeling and emotion with the most elegant constructions is clearly demonstrated with this collection.

The intensity with which Busch presents his emotionality is enhanced by his incredibly insightful portrayal of the processes of the human mind. His stories are so rich with the deepest of our hidden thoughts that they become almost palpable. In these stories, Busch portrays highly intelligent people working with personal intimacies that are highly personal, yet so universal at the same time.

Particularly attractive is his "novella" in the book, "Handbook For Spies." Not only is the story captivatingly well written, but it is a virtual social commentary beyond the basics of the plot he lays out. In addition, his implication seems to be, that in one way or another, we are all 'spies' in some sense or another, or at least we act like them. In an editorial moment, his comment that Philip Roth is "careless about his character's lives ... he's frivolous about them..." portrays an unusually striking ability for Busch to develop his characters in a more mature emotional manner than he feels that Roth does.

Any person who enjoys the short story genre will not be disappointed by this book by Busch. For those with a high level of sensitivity toward human introspection, this book is a true revelation.

[Note: This review was originally published October 15, 2000, in the Seattle Times ...

For a volume thick with stories, "Don't Tell Anyone" is a quietly ironic title. The characters talk -- to friends or strangers, to themselves, even to ghosts -- trying to make sense of things and relieve their isolation. Like the protagonist in the opening story, "Heads," the characters throughout Frederick Busch's 20th book of fiction are filled with "half-remembered words, tatters of statement, halves of stories, the litter of alibis, confessions, supplications, and demand."

Talking sometimes closes more doors than it opens, or taps into buried rages that erupt in threats of violence. As if improved expression could solve the problem, characters correct their own and each other's phrasing. But language has a life of its own, confusing and concealing even when a speaker is being careful or terribly honest, and what one tells oneself can be the most treacherous story of all. The title urges silence for strong reasons. Yet secrets cut the characters off from people they love, as well as from themselves.

Busch's world is problematic, but his stories awaken deep joy in the reader. In the gorgeous, heart-rending story "Malvasia," a woman brings all sorts of comforts to her recently widowed father, who wants nothing except to believe that when night falls his wife will greet him in the room they used to share. In "Timberline," the narrator's flashback to a dangerous hike with his father won't let the reader go, and this memory is only one dimension of his gripping present crisis. Some of an old man's haunting, half-realized wisdom in "Machias" comes from once having held together a broken telephone wire in a blizzard, so that a doctor could be called to help birth a baby. In the old man's recollection, the message passed through his veins.

Most of the stories are about the things that happen to everyone -- a love lost, a child in trouble, a parent understood -- but that never come with directions or guiding principles attached. The rules and regulations of bureaucracies, on the other hand, are plentiful.

In "The Baby in the Box," the legislature controls the police department budget, so the hapless and terrified night dispatcher at the station, Ivanhoe Krisp, is the only person available when a midnight caller says a newborn was left in a dumpster. Our hero has to ride a poorly maintained, not-at-all-trusty SUV through the darkness to the rescue, and his wrenching question at the end ("Who ' would throw a person away?") won't be answered by any bureaucrat.

Nor, apparently, by any God. The book's title could be a mischievous deity's instructions to the universe: Don't tell anyone what things mean. Don't even tell people who they are. Is Krisp a hero like the great Scots warrior Ivanhoe, or just a flaky snack for the hungry night? When the narrator in "Timberline" has an amazing conversation with a stranger, has his life changed, or hasn't it? "Nobody tells him which."

Sometimes knowledge arrives, although in bizarre forms. In "Bob's Your Uncle" a psychotic young man ("wily and odd-looking, very large and a little arrested-sounding, and coated with the grime of the world") drops in on long-ago friends of his parents and won't leave. His misery and menace become a coded message to the host about himself.

Busch's understanding and compassion are generous and energetic. So is his fascination with how life goes wrong and how irrationally, impossibly, we keep trying to make things right. Each of his very different characters speaks in a unique yet natural voice. His plots move like good horses with expert riders -- a touch here, a subtle shift of weight there -- through dauntingly broken terrain. His phrasing is often brilliant; his syntax does effortless heavy lifting; his humor is a constant, unexpected grace and delight.

"Don't Tell Anyone" is a hugely satisfying book, and its author (this isn't news, but do tell everyone) is a genius of a storyteller.

This collection of sixteen short stories and a novella is yet another first-rate effort by Frederick Busch. His characters have the kind of humanity that make them seem deeply real, with lives so flawlessly imagined that you can be swept away by them. Even if the short stories weren't so good (and believe me, they are excellent), it would be worth reading this book just for the novella "A Handbook for Spies." The longer format allows Busch to delve more thoroughly into his subject matter and characters, thus expanding the protagonist Willie's life in a way not possible in a short story. We are treated to Willie's loves, his fears, his peculiar relationship with his Holocaust survivor parents and their peculiar relationship, and what it all means to a man who escaped service in the Vietnam War.

Busch writes the kind of dialogue you might wish you encountered in your own conversations: sharp, witty, wise, intriguing. His language is impeccable, with descriptions so memorable I sometimes stopped reading in admiration, to savor the words. Busch can be as funny as he can be melancholy, and every last story in this book has tremendous emotional range.

It saddens me to know (other reviews) that this is Fredrick Forsyth's last book. One of his best indeed. He has been an expert at cold war fictions and ICON is also on a East vs West story line. However it is remarkable the way he has put the story into todays context. We will really miss this master story tellers works in the future.

In another example of his genius, in his last novel (Source : BBC World), Fedrick Forsyth has created a monster of a thriller of no mean proportions. The story starts off with the death of the President of Russia and the installment of a caretaker President who calls fresh elections. A former Soviet-era engineer with a gift of speech is one of the candidates and a cinch to win. However, his party has a secret manifesto, a black manifesto. A manifesto whoose objective is to cripple all of Russia's neighbours and establish a dictatorship even more powerful and renegade than the old Soviet Union. But, somehow by lax of security, even though the head of security is a former KGB colnel, the manifesto falls into the hands of a US diplomat. Alarms are immediatly raised, and a secret commitee is formed to discredit the candidate. A retired top - class agent is sent in a MI5 cum CIA operation. His misson? TO direct all ethinic minorities, the Islamic Mafia, the military, the Jewish businessmen, the Anti-Drug and Anti-Terrorist Squad and the Church of Russia against a advisary which would cause their mass slaughter. However, there is one trick still up the KGB colnel's sleeve - The Mafia, His own Balck Gaurd and 'Coup d'Êtat'. In future years this bestseller is sure to become a collector's item, not because of the fact that the author has declared it to be his final book but because of its sheer intense action and drama.

Once again Forsythe has taken historical events and true characters and interwoven them into a compelling fiction thriller. His ability to take the poltical structure of Russia and create a scenerio that is both easy to follow and hard to put down is uncanny. It is hard to rate this story his best since so many are so good, however it is without a doubt right at the top. The story centers around the future of Russian politics in the aftermath of a failed democratic free market economy. One leader seeks to gain prominence by using the failure to his own advancement. However his true beliefs are found in a document known only to him and two other comrades (The Black Manifesto). Fortunately this document falls in the hands of a US diplomat. The story gravitates around America's need to discredit this leader without outward involvement. Forsythe takes us into the underworld of Russian mafia as well as the upper echilon of the Politboro.

I was very touched by the story of the Elephant man, who was very deformed and endured many hardships in his childhood and young adult life because of his appearance. His life becomes bearable though in his end years thanks to the kindness of Dr. Fredrick Treves and many other people. If you haven't heard of or read about the Elephant man yet, I recommend this book, Joseph Merrick's story (the Elephant man) is something you won't forget. The terrors he went through and then how incredibly grateful he was for the simplest pleasures after being rescued by Dr. Treves make me see life through new eyes: it is hard to take things for granted. The book also includes photographs of Joseph.

THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ IT IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT A MAN JOSEPH CAREY MERRICK WHO SUFFERED A DISEASE PROTIO-SYNDROM WHICH DISFIGURED HIM. ITS ABOUT HOW HE LIVED AND HOW HE SPENT HIS TIME WITH HIS DOCTOR. THE WHOLE BOOK IS GREAT I FOUND IT VERY INTERESTING AND TOUCHING. BUT IN ALL I WOULD RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE. -RANDY

The movie, which I saw when I was 7 was a lie. Tom Norman, his manager in the freak show treated him with great respect and was a portaryed as a monster. He was never stolen from the London Hospital and was not beaten. The movie focused on the bad of his life but not the good. Sir Fredrick Treves (forgiven an misspelling,s, I am only 12) the sugeon that helped him was a great man and help John and brought out the good that most overlooked because of his appearance. He is man i would love to personally meet and this book helped me realize that he was a smart man, a caring man, a loving man....This book would help anyone interested in this subject with it's photos and insight.